Corporate Finance category: 1651 books
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and '80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-trust of engineering geniuses, a group of computer eccentrics dubbed PARC. This brilliant group created...
Ray & Joan
The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonald’s. But what about his wife Joan, the woman who became famous for giving away his fortune? Lisa Napoli tells the fascinating story behind the historic couple.
Ray...
Stealing Time
Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2003
In January 2000, America Online and Time Warner announced the largest merger in U.S. history, a deal that would create the biggest media company in the world. It was celebrated as the marriage of new media and old media, a potent combination of the nation's No. 1 Internet company and the country's...
by Thomas Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
“Examines why the set-in-its-ways Coca Cola Company tampered with a drink that had become an American institution—and blundered into one of the greatest marketing triumphs of all time.”—New York
On April 23, 1985, the top executives of the Coca-Cola Company held a press conference in...
The Bettencourt Affair
The World's Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what...
by Abrahm Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled.
Two decades ago, British Petroleum, a venerable and storied corporation, was running out of oil reserves. Along came a new CEO of vision and vast ambition, John Browne, who pulled off one of...
by Prem Geet OceanicMedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
First in a series of "Osho's Alphabet," this is an homage to Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc., who exemplified Osho's teaching about the urgency and immediacy of life. "A is for Apple and Steve Jobs as Avatar" is a reflection upon the mysterious last words of Jobs, a man who...
Starting Up Silicon Valley
How ROLM Became a Cultural Icon and Fortune 500 Company
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From Fruit Shed to Fortune 500: The inside story of ROLM and its continuing influence on Silicon Valley
Decades before Facebook, seven years before Apple, four young men were hard at work in a prune-drying shed designing “the world’s toughest computer.” That was the founding of ROLM Corporation,...
Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“One of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980’s.”
—New York Times Book Review
A #1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall...
by Rod McQueen,Jim Balsillie,Mike Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Chances are…you are looking at yours right now. They are--quite literally--everywhere. US President Barack Obama admits he cannot live without it. Oprah Winfrey, reigning queen of daytime TV, declared on air that the BlackBerry is one of her "favorite things." BusinessWeek put the case for owning one...
Private Empire
ExxonMobil and American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
**From the award-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S, an “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil (The Washington Post)
Includes a profile of current Secretary of State and former chairman and chief executive of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson**
In...
Shift
Inside Nissan's Historic Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds in automotive—and corporate—history.
When Carlos Ghosn (pronounced like “phone”)...
Ice Cream Social
The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Ben & Jerry’s has always been committed to an insanely ambitious three-part mission: making the world’s best ice cream, supporting progressive causes, and sharing the company’s success with all stakeholders: employees, suppliers, distributors, customers, cows, everybody. But it hasn’t...
Inside Coca-Cola
A CEO's Life Story of Building the World's Most Popular Brand
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival
Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than 30 years, retiring in 2009 as CEO after regilding the tarnished brand image of the world's leading soft-drink company. This first book by a Coca-Cola...